Index / Search / Puccinellia distans
§1 Plant
Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.
vernacular weeping alkaligrass — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Puccinellia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 216 counties across 31 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 216 counties across 31 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 1 B ▾
California view state ↗ 9 B ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 6 B ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 B ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 B ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 B ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 B ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 B ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Montana view state ↗ 17 B ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 B ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 9 B ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 B ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 B ▾
New York view state ↗ 20 B ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Utah view state ↗ 24 B ▾
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Vermont view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Washington view state ↗ 13 B ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 15 B ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PUDI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704688 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T20:46:58Z